I like it when authors talk to me. In their books, I mean (although it’s nice when they do it in person, too). And when they do, I feel compelled to respond. So when Hervé Tullet tells me to Press Here, I press. Right there. When Jan Thomas asks Can …
Recently, on a family vacation—thousands of miles and a dozen years since we’d read the book he was referencing—my son said, “Look—an Oliver Tolliver dog.” Now if you haven’t read Mary Ann Hoberman’s book One of Each, you wouldn’t have known to look around for an Airedale Terrier, but my …